Ivan Hegeduš is driving out of the city centre of Vukovar. A warning sign flickers past the windows as he revs up on the highway. The countryside of the small Croatian boarder town is still plagued with landmines. “It was pure politics”, he says. “The Serbs were our neighbours, they still are. It was the politicians and army officers afraid of losing power who caused the war. They made religion and ethnicity excuses to make neighbours kill neighbours”.

In the suburbs where the Yugoslavian army had their heavy artillery bomb the city into pebbles, we watch as three children play on top of a Serbian tank, left as a commemorative of the war. “It still is the politicians who are to blame for our problems”, Ivan says, “not rebuilding the town, not letting us move on from the war. 20 years on, and we still live in ruins”.